what we heard from john boehner, the house speaker earlier this week, sort of conflicting remarks on whether p ares would be open to tax increases. the day after the election, he said that revenue increases might be a possibility, but then in interview yesterday, he said basically we're not open to tax increases. so it will be interesting to see how much of a focus the president puts on the issue of revenue increases in his remarks today. >> what impact has the election had on the hard liner republicans? has it made them more malleable? >> it certainly looks like it has early on here. the tone in washington is we lost the election, mitt romney did not win, the american people have spoken. we have to work with this president the next four years and that's different than what we've seen the last year and a half which is we want to do everything we can to make this president a one term president. now that that's not going to happen, republicans don't have much choice, they have to work with this president and the tone here is very different so far than what we saw the last year. the que